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Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

Making Obama: Part 1

From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama

From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more

Big Ron Hunter: Coming In to Eat

From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.

Big Ron Hunter is invited inside to eat with his friends.

Robert Bowden, Champion of the Underdog

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Hill District community leader Robert Bowden (b. 1946) reflects on his education, upbringing and life's work based on interviews conducted by stude...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) reflects on his life and art based on interviews conducted by teens Martay Howard and Wyatt Wad...

Hip-Hop Legend Paradise Gray

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Hip Hop legend Paradise Gray (b. 1964) reflects on becoming an activist and ushering in a new generation of hip-hop based on interviews by teens Da...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Reverend Johnnie Monroe, Voice of Hope

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Hill District pastor and community leader Johnnie Monroe (b.1941) reflects on the importance of the church and his faith in today’s youth to become...

USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor Leonard Brown

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

Homer Craig, Veteran and Retired Police Sergeant

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Rev. Donald P. Turner. Homestead pastor and retired paratrooper

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Jazz and the Visual Arts (Ep. 9)

From: Jeff Haas

Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.

You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS and more

Lucy Parsons

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

Laura Smith Haviland

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

Bought by Prairie Public

Fannie Lou Hamer

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Susie King Taylor

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...